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Nudieland, a haven for queer and trans punks, shattered by hate-fueled mass shooting
AI.com ^ | 08 17 2023 | Denny denny@reckonmedia.com

Posted on 08/21/2023 11:37:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Last Friday at a backyard punk show, Quinn McClurg was taking photos of her friends smiling at 10:02 p.m. In mere minutes, the venue became a site of a mass shooting that targeted its queer and trans attendees.

The show was held in the backyard and garage area of Nudieland, a venue located south of Minneapolis, Minn. By the end of the night, six were injured and one was pronounced dead—a beloved member of the community known as August Golden.

McClurg is a 21-year-old poet, journalist and student at the University of Minnesota. She is also a trans woman. Having moved to Minneapolis only in 2021, DIY shows like Nudieland were quick to take her in.

“DIY shows are one of the only regularly safe places for trans folks, queer folks, punks and everybody to get together and socialize,” McClurg told Reckon. “Because everybody you know and love is there. People you’ve worked in the encampments with, people you’ve done protests with—everybody’s there.” Nudieland is more than a home

Nudieland derived from its sibling venue, Disgraceland two years ago as an expansion. But it isn’t just a venue; Nudieland houses many of its punk patrons. A resident of the house who requested anonymity for their safety shared with Reckon that Nudieland never strove towards being a haven for queer and trans punks because it just already was to begin with.

The resident, who is also trans, said, “This is not a unique space. So many of the punkhouses I started going to, as young as 16, in and around Southside [Minneapolis], were the same way: there was no striving, we were just in it together, whoever walked in. We’ve always been freaks.”

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TOPICS: Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: banglist; homosexualagenda; lgbt; massshooting; minneapolis; minnesota; nudieland; queers; trans; violence
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To: realcleanguy

Just like Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, Spain, France and England.


21 posted on 08/21/2023 11:53:47 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: yesthatjallen
Then why is so much focus in the article about the 'love fest' between the victims rather that the facts of the shooting?

McClurg is a 21-year-old poet, journalist and student at the University of Minnesota. She is also a trans woman. Having moved to Minneapolis only in 2021, DIY shows like Nudieland were quick to take her in.

Who cares?

22 posted on 08/21/2023 11:54:27 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe these faggots and gender deniers will think twice about going anywhere.


23 posted on 08/21/2023 11:54:30 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: Magnum44

I seriously doubt it. What a bunch of chumps and freeloaders.


24 posted on 08/21/2023 11:54:47 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: PGR88

A tweet claims it was two blacks.


25 posted on 08/21/2023 11:54:52 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: ConservativeInPA

I hope so.


26 posted on 08/21/2023 11:55:14 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MuttTheHoople

“As opposed to a Love filled mass shooting?”


That was my question. Also, apparently the place isn’t such a “haven” after all, is it?


27 posted on 08/21/2023 11:55:33 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: yesthatjallen

McClurg is just a male pretending to be a female.


28 posted on 08/21/2023 11:55:49 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Yo-Yo
"The Dan Bongino 48 hour rule should apply here. Something tells me that this will end up being a 'lover's spat' among the transgendered and lesbian communities, not a couple of MAGA straight guys inadvertently crashing a trans nightclub and shooting the place up because they got rejected."

This article was from the 17th. There are newer articles but they report the same narrative.

29 posted on 08/21/2023 11:58:26 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Bullish

Lots of beloved community members dying lately.


30 posted on 08/21/2023 12:00:32 PM PDT by Mashood
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To: yesthatjallen
McClurg is a 21-year-old poet, journalist and student at the University of Minnesota. She is also a trans woman.

Then he is a “he,” not a “she.” He is a guy who likes to pretend he’s a woman.

31 posted on 08/21/2023 12:03:26 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Amen to that! And I’m not kidding.


32 posted on 08/21/2023 12:04:23 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Allegra

He probably also pretends he is a poet, journalist and student.


33 posted on 08/21/2023 12:06:21 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: bort
Trans on Trans shooting?

That's my bet. Too bad there's no office pool.

34 posted on 08/21/2023 12:26:58 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: yesthatjallen
We’ve always been freaks

You still are.

35 posted on 08/21/2023 12:28:19 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: bort
Trans on Trans shooting?

That's my bet. Too bad there's no office pool.

36 posted on 08/21/2023 12:29:19 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: realcleanguy

Or a nation approaching a societal enema. We’ll see.


37 posted on 08/21/2023 12:33:41 PM PDT by katana
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To: katana

Drag queens

What can go wrong


38 posted on 08/21/2023 12:37:57 PM PDT by Firehath
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To: yesthatjallen

The author of the piece sounds like he’d take Pottersville over Bedford Falls.


39 posted on 08/21/2023 12:38:32 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: yesthatjallen

Nudieland became shootieland.


40 posted on 08/21/2023 12:39:15 PM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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